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The Awakening and Selected Stories
Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
Dangerous Liaisons
Author: Choderlos de Laclos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning...
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young...
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the...
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Author: John Tenniel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics edition...
Selected Poems
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
Don Juan
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy...
The Master And Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles The devil comes...
Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
Author: Georg Buchner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: John Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps...
Shirley
Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and...
Agnes Grey
Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess...
Selected Poems
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...
The Consolation of Philosophy
Author: Ancius Boethius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor...
The Complete Poems
Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work...
Selected Poems: Blake
Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...
Three Gothic Novels
Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense...
Selected Poems
Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings
Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...
The Essays
Author: Francis Bacon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...
Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is...
Mansfield Park
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins...
Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin...
Candide, or Optimism
Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose
Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Penelope Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they created...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
Frogs and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...
Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Blending Danish folklore with magical storytelling, Hans Christian Andersen's unique fairy tales describe a world of beautiful princesses...
Untouchable
Author: Mulk Raj Anand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt' Bakha is a young man, proud and strong;...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
Beowulf
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...
The Complete Fables
Author: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...
Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...